WaPo: As voters cast ballots largely without incident on Tuesday afternoon, former president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that a minor, already rectified problem with absentee balloting in Detroit was “REALLY BAD.”“Protest, protest, protest,” he wrotejust before… Continue reading

Philly Inquirer: The national Republican Party is planning to challenge provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters, a lawyer wrote in a letter to county elections officials Wednesday.The Republican National Committee “intends to challenge the provisional ballots cast by voters… Continue reading

WaPo: Voters in several battleground states have rebuked state-levelcandidates who echoed former president Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential race was rigged, keeping election deniers from positions with power over the certification of future presidential election results.But dozens… Continue reading

While election denialism was a winning strategy in many Republican primaries, it was a mixed bag last night in many contests for key state-level offices that play some role in overseeing elections. Key projected winners included Florida Governor Ron DeSantis… Continue reading

With news that the North Carolina Supreme Court has flipped to Republican control, there is a good chance that the this court’s holding that partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution will be overturned. That ruling will allow Republicans to draw… Continue reading

ELB readers may remember that John Fetterman intervened in some litigation in federal court over whether the state may reject mailed in ballots that arrived on time but had no date or the wrong date. The state Supreme Court split… Continue reading

Arizona Republic: Republicans on Tuesday sought an emergency court order to prevent polls from closing.Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters joined the RNC as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Maricopa County. They asked a judge… Continue reading

NPR: In an election that had experts worried about vigilante poll monitors and the potential for danger for election workers, voting on Election Day seems to have gone off without any major incidents.That is — no incidents that rise above… Continue reading

NYT reports.

NYT: Overwhelmed election officials in Nevada say that they have been flooded by thousands of mail-in ballots, and that it may take several days to count the votes and upload results.Last year, the state began requiring that mail-in ballots be… Continue reading

NYT. But as Rick Pildes points out, it looks like in key battleground states, most or all of the election deniers among the Secretary of State candidates appear to be losing.

Solid chance that Democrats win Secretary of State races in all of WI/AZ/NV.Combine this with their MI SoS + PA Gov wins + Raffensperger in GA and you may not have an election denier as Secretary of State in any… Continue reading

Politico reports.

As noted when I blogged about the Washington Post column on the “Total Vote Runoff” variation of Ranked Choice Vote (co-authored with Eric Maskin), a mathematical feature of this method is that it will elect a Condorcet Winner–the candidate who… Continue reading